Should we be frightened or just angry?

When I was very young in 1953 or 1954, I was scared of aliens because of a TV program called “A for Andromeda”. I had no real reason to be scared, but that was the only time since then…

A few years later, I was scared of the Atomic Bomb and its mushroom cloud.I had reason to be scared because they are terrible. And now there are even more bombs and we should be on high alert to ban them, but nothing happens.

We should be really angry at this waste. Many of those in control of them are not exactly stable individuals…

For the last decade we have realised that Climate Change is a real and current threat to our Earth.

Many of us are frightened but what is happening? Virtually nothing – the world leaders are too thick to take action. Even here in Finland the government still believes that deforestation is OK here when we tear down our forests to sell wood pulp and toilet paper to China, but deforestation in Brazil is wrong! Not even this smallest action appears possible when the USA, Europe and China pump out non-stop emissions on a scale one million times greater.

We should be really angry, and not frightened…

And now we learn today of a new report telling us that 1 000 000 species will become extinct if we carry on destroying the environment. Should we also frightened that bees will die out, and that pollination will cease and billions will starve or should we be angry?

Nobody wants to be the first to take action.

… and then we have our great institutions that should be built on the concept of cooperation like the EU. Should we be frightened that populists and nationalists want to destroy this strength by allowing corruption, destroying democracy and abusing EU grants. No, we should be angry… really angry.

Our great EU leaders, Macron, Merkel, Tusk and Junker only want to choose the next leaders while May and Corbyn fight over how to commit suicide…

The whole point about all of the above is that we can see what is going wrong and yet our political leaders do not take the necessary action. They just hide behind the easy stuff and leave the difficult stuff to threaten our existence. That should make us angry, and not frightened…